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Beebee, H. Contingent Laws Rule 2002 Analysis   article  
BibTeX:
@article{Beebee2002,
  author = {Beebee, Helen},
  title = {Contingent Laws Rule},
  journal = {Analysis},
  year = {2002},
  volume = {62},
  pages = {252-255}
}
Beebee, H. The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature 2000 Philosophy and Phenomenological Research   article URL  
Abstract: Recently several thought experiments have been developed (by John Carroll amongst others) which have been alleged to refute the Ramsey-Lewis view of laws of nature. The paper aims to show that two such thought experiments fail to establish that the Ramsey-Lewis view is false, since they presuppose a conception of laws of nature that is radically at odds with the Humean conception of laws embodied by the Ramsey-Lewis view. In particular, the thought experiments presuppose that laws of nature govern the behavior of objects. The paper argues that the claim that laws govern should not be regarded as a conceptual truth, and shows how the governing conception of laws manifests itself in the thought experiments. Hence the thought experiments do not constitute genuine counter-examples to the Ramsey-Lewis view, since the Humean is free to reject the conception of laws which the thought experiments presuppose.
BibTeX:
@article{Beebee2000,
  author = {Beebee, Helen},
  title = {The Non-Governing Conception of Laws of Nature},
  journal = {Philosophy and Phenomenological Research},
  publisher = {International Phenomenological Society},
  year = {2000},
  volume = {61},
  number = {3},
  pages = {571--594},
  url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/2653613}
}
Bird, A. The epistemological argument against Lewis?s regularity view of laws 2007 Philosophical Studies   article  
BibTeX:
@article{Bird2007,
  author = {Bird, Alexander},
  title = {The epistemological argument against Lewis?s regularity view of laws},
  journal = {Philosophical Studies},
  year = {2007}
}
Earman, J. Laws of nature: The Empiricist Challenge 1984 D.H.Armstrong   incollection  
BibTeX:
@incollection{Earmana,
  author = {Earman, J.},
  title = {Laws of nature: The Empiricist Challenge},
  booktitle = {D.H.Armstrong},
  publisher = {Dortrecht: Reidel},
  year = {1984},
  pages = {191-223}
}
Earman, J. The Universality of Laws 1978 Philosophy of Science   article  
BibTeX:
@article{Earman1978,
  author = {Earman, J.},
  title = {The Universality of Laws},
  journal = {Philosophy of Science},
  year = {1978},
  volume = {45},
  pages = {173-181}
}
Ruddick, C. T. Hume on Scientific Law 1949 Philosophy of Science   article URL  
BibTeX:
@article{Ruddick1949,
  author = {Ruddick, Chester T.},
  title = {Hume on Scientific Law},
  journal = {Philosophy of Science},
  publisher = {The University of Chicago Press on behalf of the Philosophy of Science Association},
  year = {1949},
  volume = {16},
  number = {2},
  pages = {89--93},
  url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/185127}
}
Schaffer, J. Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism 2007 Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics   incollection  
Abstract: Causation and the laws of nature are nothing over and above the pattern of events, just like a

movie is nothing over and above the sequence of frames. Or so I will argue. The position I will

argue for is broadly inspired by Hume and Lewis, and may be expressed in the slogan: what must

be, must be grounded in what is.

BibTeX:
@incollection{Schaffer2007,
  author = {Schaffer, Jonathan},
  title = {Causation and Laws of Nature: Reductionism},
  booktitle = {Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics},
  publisher = {Basil Blackwell},
  year = {2007},
  pages = {82-107}
}
Swartz, N. A Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities 1995 Laws of Nature: Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions   incollection  
BibTeX:
@incollection{Swartz1995,
  author = {Swartz, N.},
  title = {A Neo-Humean Perspective: Laws as Regularities},
  booktitle = {Laws of Nature: Essays on the Philosophical, Scientific and Historical Dimensions},
  publisher = {de Gruyter, Berlin},
  year = {1995}
}
Urbach, P. What Is a Law of Nature? A Humean Answer 1988 The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science   article URL  
BibTeX:
@article{Urbach1988,
  author = {Urbach, Peter},
  title = {What Is a Law of Nature? A Humean Answer},
  journal = {The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science},
  publisher = {Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Society for the Philosophy of Science},
  year = {1988},
  volume = {39},
  number = {2},
  pages = {193--209},
  url = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/687266}
}

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